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Venezuela, Maduro, the Dollar, and What This Is Really About

Over the past few weeks, the United States has intervened militarily in Venezuela, removed its sitting president, and announced that it will oversee the country’s future administration and economic direction. The action has been justified publicly using a familiar mix of arguments: alleged election fraud, drug trafficking, terrorism, and national security.

Those claims have been repeated widely, often without scrutiny. They are not new, and they are not unique to Venezuela. Similar language has accompanied US interventions for decades, from Latin America to the Middle East.

This article looks at what sits beneath those justifications.… Click here to continue reading this article

Illegal Immigration, British Decline, and the Trump Lesson

Britain’s Comedy, Chaos, and the Trump Envy Nobody Admits

For nearly a decade — ever since Donald Trump emerged as a political force in 2016 — the British liberal establishment has made a national sport out of mocking him. “That funny orange man” has become the punchline for every lazy, state-subsidised left-wing comic. It’s been the shortcut to a cheap laugh on the BBC panel shows and in the Guardian columns. British comedy hasn’t been this hollow in decades.

But here’s the thing: he who laughs last, or not at all, laughs longest.… Click here to continue reading this article

They’re IT guys, and we let them silence a president

This article first appeared in the Sunday Times.

The era of free speech online is over. The indefinite suspension of Donald Trump’s Twitter account, following his suspension from Facebook, is a profound moment from which there is no going back. The tech giants have essentially asserted their right to police democratic politics, even to censor democratically elected presidents, depriving Trump of the primary means by which he addresses the American public.

Political debate online will now be firmly subject to the whims and prejudices of unaccountable billionaires. And this is being cheered by people who call themselves liberal.… Click here to continue reading this article

Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi, Donald Trump and Meghan Markle.

Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi, Donald Trump and Meghan Markle and not three obvious names you might think are likely to come together in one article.

What about I throw some Brexit in?

In an internet forum discussion (ostensibly on Donald Trump but frequently on other things) recently, a bloke said this to me:

Read up on Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi and his views: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_von_Coudenhove-Kalergi#Views_on_race_and_religion

Well, I’d never heard of Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi. But from the link I found an interesting quote:

“The man of the future will be of mixed race. Today’s races and classes will gradually disappear owing to the vanishing of space, time, and prejudice.

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Is War Between the USA and North Korea Likely?

The media is foaming at the mouth at the prospect of a war between North Korea and the USA.

Is a nuclear war likely between North Korea and the USA? Are Donald Trump and Kim Jong-Un likely to go to war?

We say no.

It’s all theatre. Or at least, it’s all theatre now North Korea’s powerful neighbour China have clarified their position thus:

China’s state-run Global Times said: “If the US and South Korea carry out strikes and try to overthrow the North Korean regime and change the political pattern of the Korean Peninsula, China will prevent them from doing so.”

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So, What’s The Story Behind Donald Trump’s ‘Surprise’?

So, What’s The Story Behind Trump’s ‘Surprise’?

I have been thinking about this Trump thing and how it has been that some folks have simply not been able to understand what was going on in front of their faces.

I don’t just mean the ordinary voters, but pundits, analysts and other politicians.

Here, I will make an aside and not that it is quite likely that many, perhaps most of these groups were fully aware of what was happening but their assigned task was to convince the main in the street that Trump was not as significant as he has been and will be.… Click here to continue reading this article